
The Empire of Cotton: Sven Beckert in conversation with Patrick French
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The History of Capitalism
For many Europeans in the first half of the 19th century this just seemed to be part of the natural order of things right people who lived in other parts of the world and who looked differently from them they were you know made to work for the benefits of European industry. But as we know capitalism shifts course and with it also global capitalism came to live without this dependence on enslaving agricultural workers on plantations. So so I mean capitalism is constantly shifting it takes on different forms and it historically it unfolded by resorting connecting to these end to enslavement colonialism all of it but but that's not necessarily the essence of capitalism Capitalism can also be based on wage labor as it is in much of the
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